Tim Verbelen
Director Intelligent Systems Lab at VERSES
Ghent Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Verbelen is a research-driven engineering leader with 12 years of experience, currently directing the Intelligent Systems Lab at VERSES where he applies active inference to teach embodied agents new perception and control skills. Trained magna cum laude in Computer Software Engineering at Ghent University, he blends rigorous academic foundations with practical research-to-product translation in robotics and multi-agent systems. Known for exploring scalable, real-world applications of probabilistic cognition, he focuses on agents that interact robustly with complex environments and each other. Based in the Ghent metropolitan area, he brings a rare combination of hands-on technical depth and lab-scale leadership, bridging theory, experiments, and engineering delivery. An understated strength is his commitment to making advanced cognitive models computationally tractable for deployment beyond the lab.
12 years of coding experience
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering, Magna cum laude, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering, Magna cum laude at Ghent University
Dutch, English, French
Github Skills (89)
tooling10
bnd10
python10
maven-plugin10
differentiation10
specification10
maven10
gradle-plugin10
eclipse10
ssreflect10
markov-chain10
bndtools10
traceability10
clojure10
markov-decision-processes10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
thesmartrobot/thesmartrobot.github.io
May 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:78 commits, 69 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
iwaiworkshop/iwaiworkshop.github.io
Apr 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:181 pushes in 5 years
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